Day: January 17, 2022

The Pitmasters Foundation, a group of online cockfighting (e-sabong) operators has distributed 10,000 food packs to communities in Southern Leyte affected by Typhoon Odette. Bernie Tacoy, the founder of BGT Cares Foundation, a group affiliated with Pitmasters, said an additional 3,000 food packs would be sent to typhoon victims in Southern Leyte within the week. […]

Both the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) and the peso finished Monday down partly because of the Martin Luther King (MLK) Jr. holiday in the United States. Most of the counters in the local bourse closed in the negative territory, with the main index losing 0.52 percent, or 37.51 points, to 7,223.83 points. All Shares […]

The delivery of the Indian-made medium-range ramjet supersonic BrahMos cruise missiles for the Philippine Navy (PN)’s Shore-Based Anti-Ship Missile System Acquisition Project is expected to start within a year’s time. “First delivery is estimated in one year,” Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said in a message to the Philippines News Agency over […]

Monitoring for violations of commercial establishments on the price freeze order will continue even if a month has already passed after the onslaught of the Typhoon Odette, the Department of Trade and Industry in Central Visayas (DTI-7) on Monday said. In a statement, the DTI-7 said its provincial offices are ramping up their monitoring of […]

Unlike the three inmates who managed to escape from the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa on Monday, three high-profile drug convicts at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) detention facility in Manila were not as successful. In a statement on Monday, NBI Officer-in-Charge, Director Eric Distor, said the timely action of his men prevented confessed […]

A member of the Moro Islamic Liberation (MILF) was wounded in a clash due to an existing family feud or “rido” in Basilan province, a top military official here reported Monday. Brig. Gen. Domingo Gobway, Joint Task Force (JTF)-Basilan commander, said the firefight broke out around 11:30 a.m. Monday in Barangay Bohe Baka, Tipo-Tipo, Basilan. […]